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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip
    “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    Jodi Picoult
    “My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: daughters, growing-up, love, mothers
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    Jodi Picoult
    “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: death, loss, sisters
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    Jodi Picoult
    “When you love someone you let them take care of you.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: love
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    Tom Stoppard
    “Pirates could happen to anyone.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate
    tags: man, read
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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
    tags: change
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    Victor Hugo
    “It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
    tags: curiosity
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Herman Melville
    “It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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    H.G. Wells
    “For after the Battle comes quiet.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
    tags: time
    81 likes



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